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The Arena of today and tomorrow

admin_mowp — Mon, 06 May 2024 08:00:50 +0000

While Cecilia Gasdia, Sovrintendente of the Fondazione Arena di Verona, is touring the major cities to present the 2024 programme of the famous Verona Arena Festival, the 2025 season has already been announced. 2024, the great Puccini year, will of course include the masterpieces Tosca, Turandot and a new Bohème, as well as the eagerly awaited Carmen, Barbiere di Siviglia and two Aida. The modern staging created for the festival’s 100th anniversary will be revived, as will the historic 1913 production with its monumental set. 2024 also marks the return of the great stars Anna Netrebko, Elena Stikhina, Clémentine Margaine, Jonas Kaufman, Roberto Alagna, Vittorio Grigolo, Ludovic Tézier, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, etc. as well as the debuts of Pretty Yende and mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina. 2025 will be a year dominated by Verdi, who will be back in force with Aida, La Traviata, Rigoletto and a new production of the legendary Nabucco. In the programme, only Carmen was not composed by the great composer!

Discover all upcoming shows at the Verona Arena Festival

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Jonas Kaufmann in the Arena after Anna Netrebko

admin_mowp — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:36:20 +0000

The great Verona Arena Festival is gradually announcing its cast. After the announcement of superstar Anna Netrebko (on August 2, 9 and 16 2024) in Puccini‘s Tosca, it will be Jonas Kaufmann‘s turn to come to the legendary Verona stage to sing in the composer’s masterpiece on the occasion of his anniversary year. The superstar tenor will not be the only one to shine on 30 August 2024, as he will be accompanied by Ludovic Tézier, the implacable Scarpia opposite the superb Elena Stikhina, who performs as Tosca in Hugo De Ana‘s production.

Discover Tosca by director Hugo De Ana

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The new Puccinian in Vienna is Russian

admin_mowp — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:00:59 +0000

Elena Stikhina (one of the 2016 winners of the Operalia Competition) continues her faultless career, notably as a special guest of the Wiener Staatsoper, a major international stage. The Russian soprano will be performing as Tosca on 2, 5 and 10 February 2024 before taking on the two heroines of Il Trittico, another superb masterpiece by Puccini. Under the musical direction of Philippe Jordan, she will perform as Giorgetta in Il Tabarro and then the deeply moving Suor Angelica in the opera of the same name, from 14 to 24 February 2024. The great Puccini year in Vienna seems to have found its major perfomer!

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Elena Stikhina © Ksenia Paris

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The new Queen of the Arena

admin_mowp — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:00:37 +0000

The Verona Arena Festival, to be held from June 8 to September 7, 2024, has just revealed the cast, but only of one production for the time being. Crowned Queen of Ice in Turandot in 2021, Queen of Egypt in Aida in 2022, Anna Netrebko confirms her place as the new muse of the world’s largest open-air festival, as she returns to the stage as Tosca in Puccini‘s big year. The diva in the firmament will be on stage on August 2, 9 and 16, alongside Yusif Eyvazov (Mario Cavaradossi) and Luca Salsi (Scarpia).

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Anna Netrebko © Dario Acosta

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Verona Arena 2024, 101, 7 & 5!

admin_mowp — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 09:15:10 +0000

After a grandiose 2023 season that marked its 100th anniversary, the Verona Arena Festival has just put the shows for the 2024 edition on sale. From 8 June to 7 September, there will be five special evenings, including a dance show by Roberto Bolle and, above all, seven opera titles, including a tribute to Puccini. To mark the 100th anniversary of his death, Turandot, Tosca (with Anna Netrebko for two dates) and a special Bohème with an exceptional cast will be on the bill, as will the traditional Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, Bizet’s Carmen and Verdi’s Aida. Two versions of the masterpiece are on stage: Gianfranco de Bosio‘s classic staging (dating from 1913) and Stefano Poda‘s more glitzy version, which marked the 100th anniversary celebrations at the Arena.

Discover the 2024 season of Arena di Verona Festival

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Piotr Beczala: his debut in Tosca at the Wiener Staatsoper

admin_mowp — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:25:37 +0000

Début: Great tenor Piotr Beczala had not yet performed the role of Mario Cavaradossi in Puccini’s Tosca. He will perform as Mario for the first time on February 7, 2019 at the Wiener Staatsoper for his international debut with dream partners (Sondra Radvanovsky and Thomas Hampson). With such a distribution, the show of course is already sold out but opera lovers will have the opportunity to watch the performance of February 17, 2019 live on the site: www.staatsoperlive.com or they can wait for a future revival starring Beczala.

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